Acrylic and ink on canvas

800 × 1000 mm

An official’s hat-chair and a round stool stand in deep silhouette against a field of weathered cinnabar — the lacquered furniture of Canton’s Thirteen Hongs, where merchants once sat to weigh the trade of an empire, now emptied of its sitters and left as pure presence.

THE UNBOUND COLLECTION BY HYATT, GUANGZHOU series